Rethinking ESD Webinar
From SME Support to Sustainable SME Growth - How We Can Transform ESD to Create Stronger Businesses, Sustainable Jobs and Greater Economic Impact
Date: 3 November 2026
Time: 9h00 am SAST (1-hour)
South Africa Doesn't Need More SME Development Programmes.
We Need Greater Impact.
South Africa invests billions in Enterprise and Supplier Development, yet we still struggle to demonstrate how many supported SMEs become stronger, profitable, scalable businesses and sustainable employers.
- We lack reliable, connected data to make informed development decisions.
- Practitioner competencies and development standards remain inconsistent.
- Too much attention goes to startups instead of scaling existing SMEs.
- Digital transformation remains an afterthought in many programmes.
- Fragmented support creates duplication and limits collaboration.
This thought-provoking webinar challenges our current approach and explores how we can work together to transform SME development and achieve greater collective impact.
Attend The Webinar and You'll Learn How To:
- Rethink ESD to prioritise business growth and measurable economic impact.
- Address the five critical gaps holding back SME development.
- Improve SME data collection, intelligence and development decisions.
- Strengthen practitioner competencies and intervention effectiveness.
- Shift more development resources towards growth-ready and scale-up SMEs.
- Explore how ABOS could support an integrated SME development ecosystem.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is ideal for:
- Corporate ESD executives and programme managers
- Enterprise and Supplier Development practitioners
- Incubators, accelerators and SME support organisations
- Government SME development agencies
- Development finance institutions and funders
- Business coaches, mentors and ecosystem leaders
Webinar Date and Time
Date: 3 November 2026
Time: 9:00 AM SAST (1-hour)
Venue: Online Webinar
BONUS: Discover an opportunity to collaborate on an ESD Ecosystem Integration and Impact Improvement Initiative.
Please Note: No replay will be provided. If you can't attend live, register to receive any post-webinar resources made available.
About Your Host
KK Diaz
Business & Brand Strategist | Author | CEO, A-Game Business
KK Diaz is an experienced business strategist, entrepreneur, author and SME development specialist who has spent more than two decades helping entrepreneurs build stronger businesses.
Through A-Game Business, he and his team have worked with more than 2,000 SMEs across business strategy, marketing, sales, systems, digital transformation and enterprise development.
His work focuses on helping entrepreneurs move beyond survival and build profitable, scalable, self-managing businesses.
He is also the driving force behind the A-Game Business Operating System (ABOS), an integrated technology platform designed to help SMEs manage, grow and scale their businesses.
In this webinar, KK brings his practical experience and perspective to one of South Africa's most pressing economic development challenges: how to turn SME development investment into stronger enterprises, sustainable jobs and measurable economic impact.